Good nursing, and its importance in the treatment of disease / by J.A. Irwin.

  • Irwin, J. A. (John Arthur), 1853-1912.
Date:
[between 1870 and 1879?]
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Credit: Good nursing, and its importance in the treatment of disease / by J.A. Irwin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    }00D NURSING, AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE TREATMENT OF DISEASE. BY J. A. IRWIN, M.A., M.D., &c, Late Hon. Physician to the Manchester Southern Hospital. c LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—It is often observed how few people ever consider or appreciate the value of Health mtil they have to lament its loss. So it is, also, with Skilled Cursing and the Hygienic Management of the Sickroom—the first neans by which disease may be combated, and lost health ■egained. It is absolutely astounding, in this age of progress and scientific advancement, when men and women are jostling one mother on the very by-paths of learning, that so few can be induced :o instruct themselves on a subject, which the least reflection must ;how them is of the most vital importance to themselves, and hose dear to them, until, perhaps, it may be too late to learn, vhen sickness is already within their doors, and they should be prepared to act. Certainly, I know of no similarly important subject on which there is, even among the educated, so much nisconception and such gross ignorance; and no ignorance so ikely to be attended with lamentable results—bitter, unavailing egret to those who find themselves, through their own negligence, )owerless to assist some suffering loved one; or, still worse, much leedless discomfort, and often terrible injury, to the sufferer. The :hief cause of this apathy may be found in the very openness and simplicity of the subject itself. It would, I believe, be more generally studied, and offer more attractions to a larger section of he public, if its teachings were difficult or extraordinary—even contrary to reason and common sense, or utterly useless to every-